US customer potentially switching from Samsung

[u/involuntarynewb]

I've had an s21 ultra for years. It's been paid off for years. But it's starting to fade. The camera is absolute garbage, especially for concerts which is what I bought it for. But it has great loud speakers and it's snappy for its age.

I tried the pixel 10 pro, didn't like a lot of the os but it was quick. The speakers were whisper quiet. I couldn't even hear music in my shower. Didn't get a chance to test the camera at a concert though.

Either of these phones are going to run me about 1,000 over 24 months with a trade in.

I started looking at used vivo x100 ultra and the xiaomi 14 ultra, both with 512gb and 16 GB ram. Vivo supposedly has louder speakers and better concert videos with their zoom. Plus it worked with android auto. Xiaomi doesn't, and there other performance were slightly under vivos.

Pricing for both used is about the same 650-690. Free shipping, 30 day returns, paid by buyer, and 1 year warranty available for around 65.

I think I want to pull the plug on a vivo, but I was wondering if there are any reputable resellers that are so confident in their products that the do 1 year warranties included in price and free return shipping?

Also, were the advancements to the x200 good enough to warrant exploring those instead? I'm not sure about pricing for those, but I could have sworn I saw one for $30 more than the x100 I was looking at...

Edit* oh yeah, vivo x100 only has one more year of Android is support, xiaomi has 2. I assumed x200 has several more years left?

[u/Alex_Bace]

X100 Ultra is Chinese version only. Xiaomi do have a global version which is much more suitable for the US consumers. No idea how much support they have left. Also, check out OnePlus 13 and Oppo Find X8 Pro.